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Anna
🇮🇹 ItalyAnna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path. Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister on the film. Sophia Loren has got a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi cowrote the script. [Wikipedia]
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Sette ore di guai
🇮🇹 ItalyTotò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
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I'll Get You for This
🇮🇹 ItalyNick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
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Mask of the Avenger
🇮🇹 Italy The 1840sMonte Cristo lives... fights... loves again! — Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.
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The City Defends Itself
🇮🇹 ItalyFour criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
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Teresa
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sThe story of a bride. Revealing. Intimate. — An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.
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A Hound for Trouble
🇮🇹 ItalyKicked off the boat in Italy, Charlie forces himself upon a pizzeria owner. Donning his best Italian accent and garb, Charlie sets to work as a waiter, astonishing and horrifying the customers with his barefoot grape-stomping and musical rendition of "Atsa Matta for You?"
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Enrico Caruso - Leggenda di una voce
🇮🇹 Italy The 19th CenturyThe UNTOLD intimate story of his most PASSIONATE years, his most GLORIOUS songs, his most EXCITING escapades!
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Behind Closed Shutters
🇮🇹 ItalyMarked Women - They hunt by night and are hunted by day! — Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.
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Ombre sul Canal Grande
🇮🇹 ItalyVenice Film Festival 1951
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Il bivio
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Una bruna indiavolata!
🇮🇹 ItalyCarlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
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Trieste
🇮🇹 ItalyDespite all actions taken in attempt to conquer Trieste, Gestapo forces fail to do so. The surrender of Italian fascist state gives partisans an open way in seizing the power with the help of domicile population.
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The Affairs of Messalina
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyA story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
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Milano miliardaria
🇮🇹 ItalyThe Milanese Luigi Pizzigoni, photographer, and the Neapolitan barber Peppino Avallone, resident in Milan, are opponents in the sports field. The first is a proud Inter supporter, while the second is from Napoli.
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Love I Haven't... But... But
🇮🇹 ItalyGina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
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Malavita
🇮🇹 ItalyRenato, a young and honest man, falls for Lidia, a gangster's moll, and is forced to join his band.
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Stromboli
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sRaging Island... Raging Passions! — After the end of World War II Karen, a young displaced woman from Lithuania, marries Italian fisherman Antonio to get away from her internment camp. But the life on Antonio's island, Stromboli, threatened by its volcano, is a tough one and Karen cannot get used to it.
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Deported
🇮🇹 ItalyWhat Happens to Gangsters When They're... — The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
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The Flame and the Arrow
🇮🇹 Italy The 12th CenturyAll the adventure a man can live, he lives. — Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
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Black Hand
🇮🇹 Italy The 1900sIt's Gene Kelly against The Black Hand! — In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.
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Story of a Love Affair
🇮🇹 ItalyPaola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Massimo Girotti). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.
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The Path of Hope
🇮🇹 ItalyThe story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.
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Side Street Story
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sA combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
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Sunday in August
🇮🇹 ItalyThe plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.
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September Affair
🇮🇹 Italy"... let's live for today." — An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
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My Daughter Joy
🇮🇹 ItalyHe gambled a million dollars to put the world on the spot — A financier (Edward G. Robinson) plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter (Peggy Cummins) to the son of an Arab sheik.
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Captain Carey, U.S.A.
🇮🇹 ItalyThe smashing story of an American Soldier who didn't lay down his guns until betrayal was avenged! — Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey (Alan Ladd), the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi (Wanda Hendrix). Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.
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Volcano
🇮🇹 ItalyLava hot with fury, power, passions! — An exiled Italian prostitute (Anna Magnani) shields her sister (Geraldine Brooks) from a deep-sea diver (Rossano Brazzi) on an island volcano.
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Tormento
🇮🇹 ItalyAnna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.
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First Communion
🇮🇹 ItalyThe daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
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Prelude to Fame
🇮🇹 ItalyPrelude to Fame is a 1950 British drama film directed by Fergus McDonell from a story by Aldous Huxley. While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini (Henry Oscar and Kathleen Byron) become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.
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Julius Caesar
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st Century BCAdaptation of the Shakespeare play.
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Paolo e Francesca
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Honeymoon Deferred
🇮🇹 ItalyAfter World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
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Her Favourite Husband
🇮🇹 ItalyWhile casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
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The Thief of Venice
🇮🇹 ItalyA beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.
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